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wrote to her yesterday asking her if she would send me her photograph. I dont get on very well with her picture. 

Sunday July 25th 1874. We went to High Falls and dined at Fred Nortons. Johnnie & Nannie rode out with us and we brought Sara home. 

Monday 26. My Father & Mother went to New York on the day boat on their way to Hillsboro. 

Thursday 30. Recd. a letter on Tuesday from Whittredge who is at Scribners. He wrote in a melancholy tone as though he were lonesome as I presume he is his wife not being with him. I wrote him yesterday and asked him to come down here. Sara and Tula went to New York on Tuesday to meet Lucy who is to be there on Wednesday morning with her little family. Lory Stoddard and I took a walk day before yesterday. We met Ned Tomkins who took us through the quarries after which we went down to the Point and home by Steep Rocks. I had a nice walk today down to Steep Rocks and home by Roatina. It rained yesterday and today has been a perfect day, like early September. It seems to me we have had an unusual number of lovely days and very little hot weather. 

Friday 31. Another perfect day, cool and delightful. Painted all forenoon and in the afternoon finished one of the Putnam drawings. I have five finished now which I shall send to them tomorrow making eleven in all I have done. I had a note from them today asking when they could have some more. Received a note from Maj. Wilkinson and a letter from Fitch.

Saturday August 1st 1874. Lucy & her family came this evening with Sara & Tula and Girards wife. Lucy has just arrived from Beaver. Calvert came from Hudson. 

Sunday 2. Calvert, John McEntee, Reed & I went to Mr. Marion. It was a magnificent day and I never saw the Kingston Valley look finer. The skies were incomparably fine and we saw showers and grand effects in all directions. A thunder bolt discharged near us at the foot of the mountains